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Swedish National Data Service's Strategy for Sharing and Mediating Data

Submitted by c.perry on Mon, 2010-12-20 11:20

Presenter 1

Iris Alfredsson

Swedish National Data Service

Presenter 2

Carina Carlhed

Malardalen University

Presenter 3

Veronika Marosi

Swedish National Data Service

The main purposes for SND are to mediate information on data bases
and other digital material collections for research, to facilitate
access to research databases and to serve as a knowledge node for
documenting and managing research data and adherent methodologies in
several knowledge fields. Thus, a very important task for SND is to
strengthen the altruistic reception of the importance of data sharing
and open access among researchers. We have identified two key areas
which serve as barriers for reaching our goals; legal barriers and
possessive barriers. The legal barriers are hinders in Swedish current
laws and statues. The possessive barriers are thresholds connected to
unconsciousness among researchers. We will present our strategy which is
a combination of "top-down" and "bottom-up" activities and some
preliminary results from a survey. An example of a "top-down" activity
is to influence research financiers to put higher demands on future open
access data when completion of studies. Another example is to provide
means and support researchers through the whole research process, e.g.
with interpretations of different legal aspects of open access. Examples
of "bottom-up" activities is to be present in different research
contexts and "missionize" the benefits of sharing data.

Swedish National Data Service's Strategy for Sharing and Mediating Data

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